List of Disasters in Great Britain and Ireland

Fewer Than 100 Fatalities

99 – Meikle Ferry disaster, Dornoch Firth, Scotland; over-laden ferryboat sank with the loss of 99 lives (16 August 1809).
99 – HMS Thetis submarine disaster; flooded through torpedo tube during pre war sea trials, Liverpool Bay, (1 June 1939), salvaged but sunk by depth charges with all hands in 1943
98 – Britannia Airways Bristol Britannia G-ANBB from London Luton Airport, aircrash at Ljubljana, (1 September 1966)
96 – Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, Sheffield, (15 April 1989)
95 – Haswell Colliery Blackdamp explosion, County Durham, (28 September 1844)
94 – Carlingford Lough disaster, SS Connemara and a coalship SS Retriever collided and sank, Carlingford Lough, County Down, (3 November 1916)
93 – St Scholastica riot, Oxford, 1355, a Town and gown dispute over beer escalates over three days
92 – Felling mine disaster, County Durham, firedamp explosion ushered in safety lamps by George Stephenson and Humphry Davy (25 May 1812)
90 – Lewisham rail crash, December 1957 railway signals missed in the rush hour fog
88 – Armagh rail disaster, 10 runaway railway passenger cars on a Sunday School day trip (12 June 1889)
88 – Cadeby Coal mine disaster, Cadeby Main, Cadeby, South Yorkshire (9 July 1912)
88 – Air Ferry aircrash, Douglas C-54 G-APYK, from Kent International Airport, Mont Canigou, France, (3 June 1967)
87 – Morfa Mine, Port Talbot, Glamorganshire, Colliery gas explosion, (10 March 1890)
86 – SS Egypt shipwreck, off Ushant, Brittany (20 May 1922)
85 – Rohilla, ran aground off Whitby, with a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic two years earlier rescued again (30 October 1914)
84 – British Eagle International Airlines aircrash Bristol Britannia G-AOVO from London Heathrow Airport, Innsbruck, Austria, (29 February 1964)
84 – Paisley canal disaster, canal pleasure boat capsized, Paisley, Scotland, (10 November 1810)
83 – East Side pit, Senghenydd, Glamorganshire, Colliery gas explosion, (24 May 1901), precursor to the 1913 disaster
81 – Mardy Colliery, Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire, mining disaster, (23 December 1885)
81 – Easington Colliery, County Durham, coal mine explosion, (29 May 1951)
81 – Holmfirth Flood – Bilberry Reservoir collapsed, Holme Valley, West Yorkshire, (5 February 1852)
80 – PS Pacific, lost at sea out of Liverpool, (after 23 January 1856)
80+ – PS Queen Victoria wrecked below a lighthouse in a night-time snowstorm, off Howth Head, Dublin (15 February 1853)
80 – Llandow air disaster, Fairflight Avro Tudor G-AKBY, Sigginstone, Glamorganshire, (12 March 1950) with returning Welsh Rugby Union supporters on board (highest confirmed death toll of any civil aviation disaster up to that date)
80 – Creswell Colliery mining accident caused by smoke inhalation, Creswell, Derbyshire, (26 September 1950)
79 – Great Yarmouth Suspension bridge collapse above a river, killing children watching a clown, (2 May 1846)
79 – British Admiral wrecked Tasmania out of Liverpool, (23 May 1874)
79 – HMS Glatton, wrecked by accidental explosion, Dover harbour (16 September 1918)
79 – Markham Colliery disaster, underground explosion Derbyshire (10 May 1938)
78 – Barn fire during a puppet show with the doors nailed shut, Burwell, Cambridgeshire, (8 September 1727)
77 – the Cherubim and Ocean Home collided off Lizard Point (5 September 1856)
75 – Maypole Colliery Disaster, Abram, Lancashire, (18 August 1908)
75 – Tay Bridge disaster, cast iron bridge collapse with a steam train on it during an evening storm, Dundee, (28 December 1879)
75 – HMS Affray mysterious submarine disaster, English Channel, (17 April 1951)
75 - STV Royston Grange, a Houlder Line cargo liner, destroyed by fire after a collision with Liberian-registered tanker Tien Chee in the Rio de la Plata on 11 May 1972.
74 – SS Naronic, lost at sea, possibly due to iceberg strike off Nova Scotia, out of Liverpool, with no Wireless Telegraph to make a distress call (19 February 1893)
74 – Trimdon Grange Colliery mining disaster (16 February 1882)
73 – Udston mining disaster, Hamilton, Scotland, (28 May 1887) firedamp explosion
73 – Silvertown explosion, (19 January 1917) explosion in a TNT factory in West Ham
72 – Stockport Air Disaster, British Midland Airways Argonaut G-ALHG, (4 June 1967) an unrecognized flaw in the fuel system made the plane returning from Majorca uncontrollable
71 – Glen Cinema Disaster, Paisley, Scotland, (31 December 1929). Glen Cinema Website
70 – Great Gale of 1871, Bridlington 100 shipwrecks (10 February 1871), incl. Royal National Lifeboat Harbinger, plus other losses at sea, estimated total of 70 marine fatalities.
70 – RAF Fauld munitions explosion during World War II, Staffordshire, (27 November 1944)
69 – HMS M1 submarine wreck— collision with Swedish surface vessel—off Plymouth, (12 November 1925)
67 – September 11, 2001 attacks,
66 – British European Airways Comet G-ARCO bomb disaster, off Rhodes, (12 October 1967)
66 – Ibrox disaster – compressive asphyxia spectator crush on stairway at Ibrox Park football stadium, Glasgow (2 January 1971)
65 – Theatre Royal, Glasgow panic, Dunlop Street, Glasgow, (17 February 1849)
65 – Peckfield Colliery explosion, Micklefield, Yorkshire (30 April 1896)
65 – Cherokee class brig-sloop HMS Jasper (1808) was wrecked in huricane force winds on either Rame Head, Cornwall or Bear's Head, Mount Batten, Devon.
64 – Middle Duffryn Mine, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, Colliery explosion (10 May 1852)
64 – Masbrough boat disaster, Rotherham, (5 July 1841)
64 – HMS Truculent submarine collision on the surface, Thames Estuary, (12 January 1950) survivors died of hypothermia on mid-winter mudbanks
63 – Victoria coal pit, Nitshill, near Glasgow, explosion (15 March 1851)
63 – Great Western Mine, Rhondda Valley Colliery mining disaster, South Wales, (11 April 1893)
63 – British European Airways aircrash, Vickers Vanguard G-APEC flight 706, Aarsele, Belgium, (2 October 1971)
62 – Dinas Rhondda, Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire, Colliery gas explosion. (13 January 1879)
62 – PS Comet II, sank in collision off Gourock, Scotland, (21 October 1825)
61 – SS Thames, steamship shipwrecked in a night-time storm, Isles of Scilly, (4 January 1841)
61 – Freckleton Air Disaster, a USAAF B-24 Liberator heavy bomber crashed into a village school in a storm, Freckleton, Lancashire, (23 August 1944) (3 aircrew, 58 ground fatalities)
60 – Garland of Topsham carrying Charles I wrecked on Godrevy Island on 30 January 1649.
60+ – Harwich ferry disaster, a 'grossly overladen' coastal vessel capsized whilst transporting soldiers and their families, (18 April 1807)
60 – Dalhousie, "Blackwall Frigate" sank off Beachy Head in October 1853
60 – HMS M2 British M class submarine flooded through her Parnall Peto seaplane hangar doors, Lyme Bay, (26 January 1932)
58 – Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery pit disaster, underground explosion caused by an electrical fault (6 August 1936)
57 – Tylorstown, Rhondda Valley Colliery mining disaster, South Wales, (27 January 1896)
57 – Sneyd Coal mine explosion, Sneyd Colliery, Staffordshire (1 January 1942)
57 – HMS K5 submarine sank in deep water, 120 miles south-west of the Isles of Scilly during sea trials (24 January 1921)
56 – Bradford City stadium fire, football stadium fire (11 May 1985)
56 – 7 July 2005 London bombings by suicide bombers
55 – Manchester air disaster Flight 28M, a Boeing 737-236 engine fire before takeoff on a holiday flight to Corfu (22 August 1985)
53 – Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire, Colliery explosion, 1869
53 – Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead, a Victorian era firestorm (6 October 1854)
52 – Lletty Shenklin Mine, Aberdare Colliery mining disaster, South Wales (14 August 1849)
52 – Yellow fever outbreak, HMS Firebrand, West Indies, July 1861
52 – Loch Ard, clipper out of Gravesend, Kent, wrecked off Loch Ard Gorge, just off the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia in thick fog (1 June 1878)
52 – HMS Wasp wrecked Tory Island, County Donegal (22 September 1884)
52 – Marine Colliery, Gwm near Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, coal mine disaster (1 March 1927)
51 – Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum fire, London, (27 January 1903) in an early psychiatric hospital holding up to 3,500 patients
51 – Summerland fire disaster, Douglas, Isle of Man, a fire in a leisure centre (2 August 1973)
51 – Marchioness disaster, River Thames, a pleasure boat rammed by a dredger under a bridge (20 August 1989)
50 – Ariana Afghan Airlines aircrash into a house, Boeing 727 YA-FAR, Gatwick (5 January 1969)
49 – all the crew and passengers of the SS Nile died when she hit the Stones Reef in St Ives Bay. The loss of life led to the building of the lighthouse.
49 – Booth's clothing factory fire, Huddersfield (31 October 1941)
49 – HMS Punjabi collision with the battleship HMS King George V, sinking 469 miles North West of Shetland (1 May 1942)
49 – Hither Green rail crash, London, a broken rail caused derailment of an express train (5 November 1967)
48 - A British Eagle International Airlines Vickers Viscount en route from London to Innsbruck, Austria, breaks up in mid-air over Bavaria (9 August 1968)
47 – The Emma, capsized after launching, Mersey and Irwell Navigation, Manchester (28 February 1828)
47 – Gethin Mine, Merthyr Tydfil, Colliery mining disaster, South Wales (19 February 1862)
47 – R101 airship crash, Beauvais, France (5 October 1930)
47 – SS Samtampa wrecked off Sker Point in the Bristol Channel (death toll includes 8 crew of Mumbles lifeboat ( 23 April 1947)
47 – Auchengeich coal mining disaster, Auchinloch, Lanarkshire, Scotland (18 September 1959)
47 – Kegworth Air Disaster, British Midland Flight 92, Leicestershire, the pilot shut down the wrong engine and just missed the M1 Motorway (8 January 1989)
46 – Wreck of Confederate States of America blockade runner PS Lelia (39 fatalities) and lifeboat crew (7 fatalities) in Liverpool Bay (14 January 1865)
45 – Bentley Coal mine disaster, Bentley, South Yorkshire (20 November 1931)
45 – Six Bells Colliery Disaster, Aberbeeg, Monmouthshire (28 June 1960)
45 – Aquila Airways Short Solent flying boat crash, Isle of Wight (15 November 1957)
45 – Sumburgh disaster, a Brent oilfield CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed at sea (6 November 1986)
44 – R38 (ZR-2) airship crash, River Humber, near Hull (24 August 1921)
44 – MV Derbyshire, Bibby Line bulk carrier sank during Typhoon Orchid, south of Japan (9 September 1980) (by tonnage the largest UK-flagged ship loss)
43 – Bourne End rail crash, near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, driver had worked for 26 consecutive days (30 September 1945)
43 – Moorgate tube crash, London Underground, in the morning rush hour (28 February 1975)
41 – Little Baldon Hastings accident at Little Baldon, Oxfordshire, aircraft crash during parachute training flight from RAF Abingdon, caused by metal fatigue (6 July 1965)
40 – Regent's Park ice-skating disaster. Ice covering the boating lake collapsed and 200 people plunged into the lake (15 January 1867)

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